Phillip Vincent Kelly (born 26 August 1957) is a former

Australian rules Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

footballer who played for

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in the

West Australian National Football League The West Australian Football League (WAFL) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from March to September, ...

and

North Melbourne North Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne local government area. North Melbourne recorded a population of 14,953 at the ...

in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

. He represented Western Australia at interstate football on six occasions. Kelly played mostly as a wingman but was also used as times on the ball. He started his career in 1975 at East Perth. He won

Sandover Medal The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League. The award was donated by Alfred Sandover M.B.E., a prominent Perth hardware merchant and be ...

s in both 1978 and 1979 to become the second East Perth player, after

Graham Farmer Graham Vivian "Polly" Farmer (10 March 1935 14 August 2019) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the East Perth Football Club and West Perth Football Club in th ...

, to have won the award in successive years. In 1978, he was a member of East Perth's premiership side. Kelly transferred to North Melbourne in 1981 and remained with them for five seasons. His son, Josh Kelly, was picked in the 2013 AFL Draft with the second selection by the

Greater Western Sydney Giants The Greater Western Sydney Giants (officially the Greater Western Sydney Football Club and colloquially known as the GWS Giants or simply GWS) are a professional Australian rules football team based in Sydney Olympic Park, which represents the ...

.Boyd Kelly to GWS Headlines AFL Draft
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly, Phil 1957 births Living people North Melbourne Football Club players East Perth Football Club players Western Australian State of Origin players Sandover Medal winners Australian rules footballers from Western Australia People from Busselton